Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 2 – Now Available

You may join the MDT 2012 Beta 2 Program and download MDT 2012 Beta 2 for your testing.

Whats new in MDT 2012 Beta 2

New User Driven Installation (UDI) wizard and designer

Lite Touch monitoring feature for tracking in-progress deployments

Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT) intergration

Microsoft Security Compliance (SCM) security template integration

“Deploy to VHD” support

Support for Config Manager 2012

Below are the screen caps of MDT 2012 Beta 2 installation:

Prerequisites for Lite Touch Installation (LTI) deployments, MDT requires the following components, regardless of the operating system being deployed. Install these components only on the computer on which you install MDT:

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) version 3.0

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Windows PowerShell® version 2.0

Windows AIK for Windows 7 (with or without the Windows AIK for Windows 7 SP1 supplement)